A unique auction system – will it fly?

This system is unique in that affiliates don’t drive traffic to specific advertisers’ landing pages in the traditional sense. Instead, advertisers are represented by categories, which the affiliates would then promote via generic public landing pages provided by T3leads. For example, rather than promoting a specific eHarmony dating offer, a T3leads affiliate would gather application leads for the entire dating category via predefined T3leads landing pages. eHarmony and other related companies would then bid for those leads. Make sense? It’s definitely a very unique idea that I haven’t really seen done before. In theory, it would maximize payouts for affiliates, but I’m skeptical that advertisers would be willing to bid high for general leads not specific to their own offers. We’ll see how it does.

Features of T3leads

T3leads, best known as a pay day loans affiliate program, is focused primarily on the finance industry, which is one of the most lucrative niches online. Categories in the system include credit cards, auto insurance, payday loans, debt relief, home improvement, home loans, debt settlement, and credit repair. There are public and private websites (essentially landing pages) for each of these categories that publishers would send traffic to and hope to attain leads. Conversions occur when visitors fill out an “express application” that includes fields for name, state, zip code, and email address. T3leads works only with US traffic, even though much of their site is in Russian.

The T3leads control panel is relatively easy to use, with a navigation menu at the top and statistics displayed below that. Sections include Info for news and community features, Websites for publisher landing pages, Promo for banners, Bonuses for publisher rewards, Statistics for affiliate reports, and Settings for user preferences and payment options.

Registration for the program is quick and easy as well. There’s just one form publishers need to fill out before they’re accepted. However, members need to send a few qualified leads before they reach “approved” status and become active affiliates.

As for payment, there are 6 different options paid bi-weekly assuming that the affiliate reaches the minimum threshold  of $100. Not bad considering the fact that other networks pay monthly.

If you’re looking to promote T3leads, the program pays 5% on all leads generated from referrals for life.

Overall thoughts

Normally I’m very skeptical of new affiliate networks because they usually have little value to add to the current landscape. Most of are just “me-too” networks that have an extremely tough time competing with what’s already out there. However, T3leads is intriguing because it offers a completely new business model that has potential to succeed. If you missed my explanation in the beginning, T3leads sells its own generated leads through a unique auction system that allows payouts to follow competitive market forces. Essentially, affiliates drive conversions for T3leads, who then sells those leads to related companies in the niche.

Like I said, this model has potential but it’s a matter of signing on big name advertisers that are willing to test it out. I’m also a bit concerned about the quality of the leads because they aren’t specific to each individual company’s offers. This downfall could lead to less advertisers, lower payouts, less publishers, and ultimately a failed attempt at an affiliate network.

Regardless, it’ll be interesting to see how T3leads does with this unique system. If you work in the high-money finance niche, I recommend you sign up and try T3leads for yourself.

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T3leads Review – A Unique Affiliate Network with Big Money Claims

• Offer Vault Review – Compare Top-Paying Affiliate Marketing Offers
• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?
• Ads4Dough Review – Is This Affiliate Network On the Money?
• HasOffers Review – Start Your Own Affiliate Marketing Network for Free
• Tatto Media Review – A Top Ad Network Now In Affiliate Marketing

Tatto Media is working hard to improve its network and quickly gain more advertisers and publishers. In this sponsored followup review, I’ll outline some of the improvements that they’ve made in the past couple of months (since my review).

• New design for reporting and statistics, which is supposedly faster and more efficient than before. Data view pages can easily be searched and sorted.
• Addition of conversion tracking report, which provides specific lead and sale information including sub id, tracking info, transaction id, ip address, and payout -  allows you to quickly run sub id reports.
• Updated tracking links that are easy to understand. Sub id tracking has been updated and source name has been added. You can specify a source name in the tracking URL to easily drill-down and analyze performance in reports.
• TinyURL option for affiliate links. You can convert affiliate links in the Tatto backend to TinyURLs with a click of a button (great for sharing on social media sites like Twitter).
• Ability to target specific browsers. Tatto Media now gives you the ability to target offers to users based on their browser. This will redirect users to receive offers designed for mobile devices including iPhones and thus increase your conversion rates.
• Generates tracking code with creatives via the Creative Manager. One of the biggest limitations of Tatto that I wrote about in my previous review was that none of the ad creative was available in the backend.  The team acted on my feedback, and has now made it simple for you to include the creative you want with the offer-specific tracking URL. There’s also a new feature to browse and preview creatives.
• Updated suppression lists to better support email marketers.
• Improved Stats API with updated functions and documentation to make working with the stats API easier (i.e. build your own applications with the statistics provided).
• Addition of live support (via instant messenger with affiliate managers) and a support tab with help options and glossary.

What are your thoughts on Tatto Media? Are you using it as your primary network for any big offers? How has it stacked up against all of the other networks out there?  Leave a comment with your experiences here.

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Tatto Media Keeps on Improving – Followup Review

• Tatto Media Review – A Top Ad Network Now In Affiliate Marketing
• Offer Vault Review – Compare Top-Paying Affiliate Marketing Offers
• HasOffers Review – Start Your Own Affiliate Marketing Network for Free
• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?
• Publisher Spot Review – Find the Best Ad Networks

HasOffers, a sister company of Tatto Media, is an affiliate network solution that gives you access to the same exact platform used by Tatto. Now you can white label the technology, customize and brand it however you want, and get all of the unique features of the system.

There are a lot of different barriers to entry for starting up an affiliate marketing network. You need good connections with potential advertisers, a unique business model that offers value to customers, and start up capital to hire employees and implement a platform. Up until now, networks had to either create their own platform (very expensive) or use the industry standard, DirectTrack (which still costs $10k). HasOffers has come along and shaken things up a bit. Not only is it good, it’s also free – which means the technology barrier to entry no longer exists. Anyone can set up an affiliate network in a matter of days.

How HasOffers Works

As I mentioned, HasOffers is a hosted solution that allows you to set up your own affiliate network, completely customized to your own brand. All you need to do to get started is fill out the registration form with your information, network name, and network id. The system by default gives you a URL off of a subdomain of hasoffers.com, but you can also get your own domain for your new site as well.

Once you get your account set up, it’s really just a matter of getting advertisers and affiliates on board – the hard part. HasOffers gives you all of the tools you need, but it’s up to you to effectively run your business and distinguish your site as a valuable affiliate network. A widely available platform like HasOffers will only bring on more competition so this becomes increasingly important.

Features

As for the admin panel of HasOffers, you can pretty much do everything you need to run your network. You can easily add advertisers and offers, manage affiliates and pay them, and get reports on all kinds of statistics.

HasOffers is constantly looking to improve and has recently added the following new features:

• New look and feel for the stat reports. Much more user friendly
• Advertisers have the ability to manage their own offers
• Option to allow offers to convert multiple times
• Customizable questions for affiliate sign-ups
• Lead caps can now be disabled

Take a look inside by using the demo account here: demo.hasoffers.com (login: demo@hasoffers.com, password: demo)

The only thing that seems to be missing is a way to supply affiliates with marketing materials such as banner ads and email templates. Hopefully this will be added soon.

Another limitation is the way in which you can customize the HasOffers platform. You can change any style, color, or logo, but the format and template remains the same. This is expected of a hosted solution but if you wanted to create something completely different, you won’t be able to through HasOffers.

Other than that, HasOffers is a very flexible solution that offers a ton of features for you to work with. Once you hit it big, you can always invest in a custom platform, but this is a good one to get started on and grow with.

Pricing

So how much does this all cost? Nothing. It’s free as long as you stay under 250,000 clicks per month (which is more than what most people need starting out). You can also upgrade to Pro ($99/month) or Enterprise ($799/month) which offer more clicks and better features. Below is a comparison chart.

Final Verdict

If you’re interested in running your own affiliate offer (e.g. selling an ebook through your own affiliate program) or going big and starting up a network, HasOffers is a great platform to use. Not only is it free to use, it offers features and flexibility that rival those of Direct Track ($10k). Shoemoney uses HasOffers to run his affiliate network, Shoemoney Offers, and has had a great experience with it.

Sign up for a free account with HasOffers and try it out.

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HasOffers Review – Start Your Own Affiliate Marketing Network for Free

• Tatto Media Review – A Top Ad Network Now In Affiliate Marketing
• Offer Vault Review – Compare Top-Paying Affiliate Marketing Offers
• Tatto Media Keeps on Improving – Followup Review
• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?
• Huge Affiliate Marketing Challenge By Tyler Cruz & Market Leverage

No, not really. Ideally, you want to try out different networks so that you can maximize payouts and get a better sense of what works for your campaigns. The best way to accomplish this is to use a free tool like Offer Vault to compare thousands of offers and payouts from the top affiliate and CPA networks. Let’s go in depth into what Offer Vault offers…

What is Offer Vault?

Offer Vault is an affiliate marketing search engine that allows you to find and sort through over 13,000 affiliate and CPA offers from more than 40 networks. Simply enter in a specific search term and the system will return relevant offers including the following information: payout, category, network, and last updated date. You can even limit your search by including or excluding certain networks (but only 1 network at a time… why?).

Let’s look at an example of Offer Vault in action. Today, Apple launched the new iPhone 3GS – which is a perfect opportunity for me to put up some CPA offers on my iPhone blog. Performing a search for “iphone” in Offer Vault gives me 115 results, including a variety of different offers. Here’s a screen shot.

Not only is Offer Vault a good way of discovering new offers from a pool of the top networks, but it’s also useful for comparing payouts for the same offer across different networks. For example, below is a comparison of payouts on the Flycell ringtone offer.

Of course you shouldn’t necessarily pick a network or offer completely based on payout (which is flexible depending on volume anyway), but using Offer Vault is a good starting point.

Furthermore, you can even set up email alerts so that you receive reports of search terms you care about and are notified of new offers. That’s definitely very useful if you want to keep on top of your industry.

Affiliate Marketing Networks

Offer Vault currently includes the 46 affiliate networks shown below.

While many of the top networks are covered, some obvious ones are missing – like Advaliant, Azoogle Ads, and Pepperjam Network. It would be great to see the list expanded to cover more of the networks. After all, the tool’s usefulness is highly correlated with how comprehensive it is.

In case you were wondering, Offer Vault makes money by referring people to the listed affiliate networks. Since many of the networks have referral programs based on percentage of commissions, you can see that this can become lucrative very quickly. It’s a great idea that I think could benefit everyone – Offer Vault, affiliates, networks, and advertisers.

Final Verdict

If you’re an experienced affiliate marketer, or even a newbie, Offer Vault has a lot to offer. With so many networks competing for your business, having a tool to sort through everything proves to be very valuable. Easily find new offers related to your industry or compare payouts between different networks. Offer Vault is a great resource for affiliate marketers, and although I do think it can be improved, it’s still very useful now. Oh, and best of all, it’s free.

Sign up for a free account at Offer Vault now.

What do you think of Offer Vault? Do you use it often in your affiliate marketing campaigns? How can it be made better?

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Offer Vault Review – Compare Top-Paying Affiliate Marketing Offers

• Tatto Media Review – A Top Ad Network Now In Affiliate Marketing
• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?
• Tatto Media Keeps on Improving – Followup Review
• Ads4Dough Review – Is This Affiliate Network On the Money?
• HasOffers Review – Start Your Own Affiliate Marketing Network for Free

The latest affiliate network to show up on my radar is Tatto Media, a quickly-growing ad network that claims to be the “leading behavioral advertising network focused on utilizing technology to produce immediate results.” The company was founded back in 2005 (now ranked in the top 40 by comScore of the top ad networks by reach), but has just recently launched an affiliate program to get in on the game. So what does Tatto Media have to offer in a crowded industry? There are 5 distinguishing features that set Tatto apart.

• Advanced reporting
• Self serve system
• Exclusive offers
• Weekly payments
• Superb support

Advanced Reporting – It’s fast and it’s live

Unlike some of the other networks that use the generic DirectTrack system for their offers, Tatto Media has its own proprietary tracking technology – which shows that they are serious about this business. The backend is extremely simple and easy to use and offers live performance statistics of your campaigns. This is huge considering that affiliate marketing can run very fast and every minute counts. Custom reports and charts can easily be pulled and you can even use the API to integrate with third party affiliate tracking services like Tracking202.

Self Serve System – Out of my way, please

Most of the other affiliate networks require that you talk with an affiliate manager in order to get your tracking pixels and cookies on the offer conversion page (e.g. needed to track conversions and sales in PPC campaigns). But not Tatto. Everything is available in the backend and you can instantly set up your own conversion tracking when you want it. The only thing not available at your fingertips is banner ad creative (only available through your affiliate manager), but apparently that will be added to the system next week.

Exclusive Offers

The offers listed on Tatto Media are 100% direct and span the following categories: dating, education, email submit, entertainment, finance, health, insurance, and mobile. There aren’t a huge number of offers available, but all of them are high quality with relatively large payouts. I think they took the approach of quality over quantity here. Overall, not a bad selection. Some of the top payout offers are shown below.

Weekly Payment – Get your money fast

Another benefit of using Tatto Media is that they offer weekly payments through check, Paypal, or wire. I think that’s the fastest payout schedule I’ve seen in the industry. You can never get that money fast enough, eh?

Superb Support

Finally, I have to compliment Tatto for their exceptional support. I spoke with the director of affiliate relations, Michael Catalado, and he was very helpful in helping me understand the system and getting me whatever I needed. Super affiliate Zac Johnson has also had a good experience with Tatto support.

Final Verdict

Tatto Media is a successful ad network that is leveraging it’s technology and experience to get started in the affiliate marketing space. From what I’ve seen so far, the system is easy to use and support is great – 2 of the top things that every affiliate should be looking for.

There are a ton of affiliate networks popping up left and right, but Tatto is one you should add to your list and at least give a try. Sign up as an affiliate for Tatto Media now.

What are you thoughts on Tatto Media?

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Tatto Media Review – A Top Ad Network Now In Affiliate Marketing

• Tatto Media Keeps on Improving – Followup Review
• Offer Vault Review – Compare Top-Paying Affiliate Marketing Offers
• HasOffers Review – Start Your Own Affiliate Marketing Network for Free
• Ads4Dough Review – Is This Affiliate Network On the Money?
• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?

I was talking to Dina, the marketing manager at Market Leverage, through the comments section on one of my posts (she comments frequently here). The article was about injecting personality in business blogs and Dina commented joking that no one wants to know what my favorite pizza topping is.  I replied to her, asking “why not?  My favorite topping is mushroom!”.  Lo and behold, a few hours later, a delivery guy from Giordano’s appeared at my front door with a boatload of food.  Amazing!

Here are some photos of the pizzas.  Deep-dish, Chicago style and a combo platter of mozzarella sticks and other goodies.

Apparently Dina faxed a Market Leverage letter to the pizza place and had them deliver it with the pizza. Thanks Dina!

It’s this sort of creative bribing marketing that has catapulted Market Leverage to the top of the affiliate marketing scene. If you remember, the Market Leverage team went on a blogger t-shirt campaign that brought them lots of exposure. They make a big effort to  connect with bloggers and influencers and I think that this is what will separate them from the rest of the pack.

Be sure to check out Market Leverage for exclusive affiliate marketing offers and exceptional support.

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The Fastest Way to Get Featured on Winning the Web…

• Huge Affiliate Marketing Challenge By Tyler Cruz & Market Leverage
• Market Leverage Decked Out in WTW T-Shirts – An Awesome Marketing Strategy
• Publisher Challenge Review – Compete for Prizes with the Top Affiliates
• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?
• 10 Ways to Select a Profitable Affiliate Offer

You all know my opinion on affiliate marketing contests. They’re great because everyone involved stands to gain. The affiliate network gets more qualified publishers to run their offers, affiliates are motivated and can win high-ticket prizes along with commissions, the contest holder earns referral fees, and the affiliate marketing community learns more about the tricks of the trade.

Publisher Challenge stems off of the success Tyler was having with his Market Leverage affiliate contests, where he teamed up with Market Leverage to give away some awesome prizes and earn a nice referral check every month (up to $6,000 a month). Tyler simply took the concept and moved everything to an entirely new site, and Publisher Challenge was born.

I really have to give Tyler props for this one. It’s a great idea that I know will be profitable for him and beneficial for affiliates and affiliate networks.

Site Features

Publisher Challenge looks great and is programmed very nicely. There is a leaderboard for each competition that is automatically updated with statistics for new members and commissions generated. This sort of near real-time tracking is crucial in making a concept like this work, and the site pulls it off very nicely.

Here are some of the most recent stats for Publisher Challenge. As you can see, quite a few affiliate networks have participated (including Market Leverage, XY7, and Motive Interactive) and the site has generated close to $750,000 in commissions – including $2,500 this month. A nice chunk of change…

Limitations & Suggestions

The biggest problem with Publisher Challenge, which I think will severely stunt the site’s growth, is that affiliates MUST sign up under Tyler in order to participate in the competitions. If you’re already a member of the networks, then you can’t play. Although this ensures that Tyler gets paid, it dramatically reduces the number of participants. For example, I was already signed up with Market Leverage when Tyler launched his contests – so there was no way I could take part and win the prizes. Bummer.

Tyler, my suggestion to you is to open up the competitions to ALL affiliates, no matter who they sign up under, as long as they’re members of Publisher Challenge. This change will greatly increase participation and exposure for the site. The more people that play, the more others will take notice and talk about it as well. A large percentage of new affiliates will still sign up under your affiliate link so you’re bound to earn referral fees. As the site becomes more popular, you can probably even charge the networks to feature their competitions. With the new business that they’ll receive I’m sure they’d be willing to pay up.

Current Contest

The current affiliate competition for April features PeerFly. Affiliates who make the most commissions from the network in the month of April win prizes like a new Apple Macbook, Playstation 3 Rock Band, X-Box, Wii, and more. Affiliates in the VIP tiers ($25,000-200,000) can win even better prizes like an all-expense paid trip to Las Vegas.

After 4 days into the competition, the standings are as follows.

The leader only has $69.60 in commissions. Might be a good opportunity for someone to swoop in and take the prize.

What do you think about Publisher Challenge? Companies are already copying Tyler’s concepts so it must be a good idea…

Participate in the poll and leave your thoughts in a comment below.

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Publisher Challenge Review – Compete for Prizes with the Top Affiliates

• Huge Affiliate Marketing Challenge By Tyler Cruz & Market Leverage
• Zac Johnson’s Motive Interactive Promotion – Win Big Prizes Without the Tough Competition
• Publisher Spot Review – Find the Best Ad Networks
• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?
• Winning Tips for the Direct Agents & Bidz Affiliate Marketing Challenge

The latest network to come out with a noteworthy contest is Direct Agents in partnership with Bidz, the largest interactive jewelry auction site.

Just for some background information, Direct Agents is a very small affiliate network trying to gain some exposure. Honestly, I didn’t really know about them before this promotion, but I’ve heard some great things from trustworthy. For example, affiliate Ian Fernando says that they don’t have a lot of offers, but they have the right offers with high conversion rates. The Direct Agents support team of affiliate managers is also very friendly and accommodating – a big benefit of working with a smaller network.

Now on to the competition…

The top 3 Direct Agents affiliates who drive the most number of leads for Bidz.com between February 15th and March 31st April 15th will win the following prizes.

1. Trip to the Caribbean for 2
2. 42″ flat screen TV
3. $300 gift card to use anywhere

Sound interesting? Learn more about the Direct Agents/Bidz Affiliate Challenge and sign up to participate.  I’ve actually run the Bidz.com offer in the past so I’m going to give you a few pointers on how to make money using this offer. Heck, maybe you’ll end up winning. 

Tips for Making Money Promoting the Bidz Offer via PPC Affiliate Marketing

1. Try out the smaller PPC networks
There’s a lot of competition and volume in Google, but you can do a lot better in Yahoo if you play it smart and can handle the clunky interface.

2. Come up with various keyword variations and test them

• Use the Google keyword tool to find search frequency values and use them to come up with an initial keyword list.
• Use a competitive keyword service like KeyCompete to find the keywords that competitors and Bidz.com itself is bidding on.
• Come up with your own variations using the different features of jewelry (e.g. silver necklace, gold ring jewelry, etc.). Look at the category listings on Bidz.com for more ideas.
• Also be sure to track everything and add in negative keywords to your list so that your ads don’t show for irrelevant keywords.

3. Make your ads highly specific & relevant
There are a ton of keywords you can come up with for all of the different types of jewelry. Make sure that they are tightly grouped into related ad groups and make your ads specific to that group. For example, if you’re bidding on “women’s gold necklace”, you want your ad to target that phrase, not just live jewelry auctions in general.

4. Optimize your landing page
A landing page that matches in style with the actual Bidz.com will perform best. Use the same background, font, and layout. You’ll see much higher conversion rates. Also do a search on Google for obvious keywords like “live jewelry auctions”. You can see what the other affiliates are using and copy some of your favorite elements. A long-running ad for a competitive (and expensive) keyword usually means that the affiliate is making good money.

5. Try Facebook and MySpace
Both Facebook and MySpace have PPC advertising programs that allow you to target specific audiences. There’s definitely money to be made here. Hint: try targeting middle-aged women – it’s the audience that works best with the Bidz offer.

I hope that helps you get started in this competition and in your affiliate marketing efforts in general. Are you a Direct Agents/Bidz affiliate yet? Try running the campaign and see how it performs for you. Good luck!

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Winning Tips for the Direct Agents & Bidz Affiliate Marketing Challenge

• Tatto Media Review – A Top Ad Network Now In Affiliate Marketing
• 10 Ways to Select a Profitable Affiliate Offer
• Offer Vault Review – Compare Top-Paying Affiliate Marketing Offers
• HasOffers Review – Start Your Own Affiliate Marketing Network for Free
• Huge Affiliate Marketing Challenge By Tyler Cruz & Market Leverage

This method of promotion is highly effective because everyone involved stands to gain from it. The affiliate network gets exposure from popular bloggers and gains new affiliates to promote their offers, bloggers make easy referral commissions (Tyler made $2,500 from ML referrals last month), and contest participants win prizes in addition to their affiliate revenue. It’s a great idea that I think we’ll see used more frequently in 2009.

The most recent team to implement this strategy includes Zac Johnson and Motive Interactive. As you may know, Zac is a prominent blogger in the affiliate marketing industry and is speaking at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas this week. Motive Interactive on the other hand is an up and coming affiliate network that features a new easy to use interface and exclusive offers.

Motive is running a pretty big promotion to kick off the new year. All new affiliates that sign up through Zac’s blog are eligible to win the following prizes.

The Prizes

TITANIUM TIER: $300,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: A New Smart Car ($11,990 Value)

PLATINUM TIER: $90,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: VIP Las Vegas Vacation
1st Class Air, Stay at the Wynn for 2 nights , $500 Cash

GOLD TIER: $10,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: 32 GB iPod Touch with $500 iTunes Gift Card

SILVER TIER: $1,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: XBox 360 Elite Package

What makes this contest unique is that it is performance-based but is not really a competition with other affiliates. Everyone who reaches the commission threshold will receive the rewards. For example, if there are 10 people who make $300,000 in commissions, they will all receive the Smart Car. Pretty sweet deal.

The promotion only lasts until January 31 so definitely go over to Zac’s blog and get started now. Even if you earn just $1,000 in commissions and break even, you’ll be up an XBox 360 at the end of the month.

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Zac Johnson’s Motive Interactive Promotion – Win Big Prizes Without the Tough Competition

• Motive Interactive Advent 2.0 Review – Just a Great Interface?
• Publisher Challenge Review – Compete for Prizes with the Top Affiliates
• Huge Affiliate Marketing Challenge By Tyler Cruz & Market Leverage
• Winning Tips for the Direct Agents & Bidz Affiliate Marketing Challenge
• Win a Free Pass to Elite Retreat 2009 – I Dare You!

So how does he do it? Well now you can supposedly learn Amit’s super affiliate secrets and “exact step-by-step strategies” that have made him so successful. Amit has teamed up with Anik Singal to launch PPC Classroom 2.0 to the masses, an interactive e-learning system that teaches PPC affiliate marketing. Anik has pretty good credentials himself – being one of the finalists in Business Week’s poll for America’s Top Young Entrepreneurs.

I bought into it

So being a PPC affiliate marketing student and coming off of a win against Tyler Cruz in an affiliate marketing showdown, I was intrigued by this latest class taught by the best. Like most other high-profile Internet marketing products, PPC Classroom comes with a huge launch filled with hype and fanfare. It’s tough to look through the fluff and all of the empty promises, but in the end I thought that this one could be worth the money. The price? $77 in the first month and $29.97 for every month after that. That’s actually not too bad for a big launch product like this – although they do try to upsell you like 3 times for additional high ticket products throughout the checkout process. Enticing, but no thanks.

Quick overview

I’m going to show you the back end interface of PPC Classroom and then tell you what I think about the product overall. From there you can decide whether or not you’d like to make the investment as well. Sound good?

Alright, so let’s get into what PPC Classroom 2.0 has to offer. First the learning modules…

There are 9 modules in total that take you through the entire process of setting up a PPC campaign for affiliate marketing – everything from market research to bid optimization.

The membership also comes with some bonuses that may come in handy including landing page templates, graphics packages, PPC process maps, and additional resources. Additionally, PPC Classroom owns a suite of tools that may help you in optimizing your PPC campaigns.

My thoughts on PPC Classroom

Overall, PPC Classroom promises to be an end-all affiliate marketing guide that practically gives you profitable campaigns on a silver platter. Like all things too good to be true, it falls short of that promise. PPC Classroom is a good comprehensive overview of affiliate marketing strategies, but there’s nothing in there that will instantly make you rich. In fact, I can’t find a single thing that would set Amit apart from other affiliates and enable him to make millions of dollars. PPC affiliate marketing takes a lot of hard work, experience, and luck. You can read about it all you want, but at the end of the day you need to go out there and do it for yourself.

Another thing that I noticed is that the modules are actually very brief and read like blog posts rather than detailed studies. Sure, they’re concise and easy to read, but you would expect more out of a course that’s supposed to teach you everything there is to know about affiliate marketing. As an example, one of Amit’s blog posts, Keyword Research Secrets to Explode Your Affiliate Business, is actually pretty similar to one of the keyword modules.

The Verdict

Again, you really can’t expect to succeed in affiliate marketing by reading a manual. You have to go out there and try it out for yourself. However, as an overview guide for a newbie, PPC Classroom is very good to get started. If you’re already experienced in PPC affiliate marketing and are looking for some sort of silver bullet to make you millions, you probably won’t find it in this course.

With it’s star-studded staff and marketing, PPC Classroom has already generated $700,000 in sales in just the past day. There’s been a lot of hype around the product, but don’t let that fool you. It’s just a guide and there really are no secrets.

If you don’t want to shell out the monthly fee to access PPC Classroom, I highly recommend you check out Paul Borque’s UberCamp Tutorials and Uber Affiliate Marketing Guide. In all honesty, the content in those 2 free resources are just as good, if not better than what’s offered in PPC Classroom.

But don’t take my word for it. Try out PPC Classroom 2.0 and see for yourself.

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PPC Classroom 2.0 Review – Will It Make You Millions?

• 10 Ways to Select a Profitable Affiliate Offer
• Gyutae Wins Again – Tyler Cruz Prepares For Humiliation After Affiliate Marketing Showdown
• Week 1 of the Affiliate Marketing Showdown Versus Tyler Cruz
• Affiliate Marketing Showdown – Tyler Cruz vs. Gyutae Park (Again)
• Week 3 of the Affiliate Marketing Showdown – Final Stretch